Vaporizer and burner.



H. C.. FOX.

VAPOBIZER AND BURNER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE4. 1913.

H. C. FOX. vAPoRlzER AND BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4. 1913. 1,145,135. Patented July 6, i915.

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HENRY CLAY ',EQX, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. I

VAPORIZER ANI) BURNER.

Application filed June i, 1913.

fication.

The invention relates to an improved heating element, designed particularly for use in self-heating sad irons, involving a construction wherein the fuel to be vaporized is subjected for vaporizing action to the heat from the burner which is ut-ilized for heating the iron.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a combined heating element designed tor ready connection with or removal from a self-heating sad iron and involving a compact structure, whereby the fuel, under manual control. is admitted to the vaporizing tube within the influence ot'Y the burner and utilized for heating the iron, whereby the vaporization as well as burning of' the fuel occurs within the body of the iron.

rl`he invention in its preferred form of details will be described in the follo\\'ingspeci. lic-ation, reference being had particularly jo' the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the improved vaporizer and sad iron. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. G, Fig. f2 is a horizontal longi` tudinal section taken approximately on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. t is a detail side elevation of the heating element with the tank partly broken away. Fig. 5 is a plan. Fig. 6 is a section on line @w53 of Fig. '2. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of Ythe distributing block with the tank brok away.

F or the. purpose of the present invention, it will be sufficient to describe the type of Sad iron shown as comprising a body 1 having the usual opposing ironing surfaces 2 and a handle 3 pivotally connected at the opposite ends of the body. The handle at one end is pivotally connected to the body7 through a hollow sleeve like member 4 integral with the handle and forming an open ing for the insertion into the body of the improved heating element. Slidably mounted in the horizontal or gripping portion of .the handle member is a rod 5 operated at one end by a finger lever pivotally mounted Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July (i, 1915.

serial no. 771,697.

in the handle and spring pressed in opposition to said lever by a spring T. The opposite end of the rod is connected to and operates an arm 8 which at the lower end, iinniediately adjacent the sleeve member carries a pin 9 adapted to cooperate with any one of a series ot' hole-s 10 formed in the end of the body, whereby the handleniay be locked in different positions with respect to the body providing for turning the handle vat right angles to or above either iron sur- Jface of the body.

The improved heating element includes what I term atank or receptacle 11 having a iilling, opening 12 adapted to be sealed by l a cap 13, the receptacle beingrot any appropriate size. integral with the bot-tom of the tank is what I term a distributing block 1l, by means of the various channels in which the fuel is distributed to the vaporizer and to the burner. The block 11 includes an arm 15 Jformed throughout its length with a channel 1G in communication with the tank through an opening inthe bottom ot' the latter, the said channel opening through the end of the arm remote from the tank. Said arm is provided with an offset section 17, arranged below and to one side of the arm, said section being longitudinally and centrally cored at 18 for the reception ot the burner tube as .willlater appear.

The sides and bottom of thc section are formed to provide longitudinally extending recesses 1f) to admit air between the section and the sleeve when the heating element is in place in the iron. and a set screw 19 is adapted to be passed through the member 4 of the handle and seat in al depression in -one of the recesses 19, to secure the -heating element to the iron, as clearlyA shown in F ig. 6. Spaced from thesection 17 and are ranged in spaced parallel relation to thek arm 15 is a second arm 20,l the' latter terminating at its forward end beyond the ren oeptacle. The vapor nozzle 21`is formed integral with the arm depending below and to one side thereof, said nozzle alining with, the bore 1S of the section. The forward end of the nozzle Q1 is provided with a nozzle tip 22 `Whose opening 22 terminates in rear I.

of the adjacent end of the bore 18. A needle valve Q3 is'operative. in the nozzle 21 and serres to control the passage of fuel throughthe opening of the nozzle tip. The arm 20 is formed with a longitudinal chan'- Uli nel 24 opening through the forward end of the armand at the rearA end communicating with' the burner-tube. I -The'vaporizcr comprises a tube 25 ar- '.ra\nged in elongated loop form with the ends connected to the respective arms l5 and so that the tube isin open communication with the channels 1G and 24. T j thusestabhshes communication between the in the present;

lproper mixture ofair 1e va porizer receptacle and the nozzle 2l and the length of the tube Q5 beyond the arms constitutes the path of travel for the liquid fuel during the vaporization thereof. As thus arranged, the vaporizer.projects beyond and'approxi- `mately at right angles to the receptacle, the of the receptacle provid-l relative elevation inga gravity feed from the receptacle to the feed tube. 4 .The burner proper, 'shown instance as an elongated slotted tube 26, is secured in the bore 1S of the section 17' by a set screw Q6. As thus arranged the burner Atube is alined and open to the delivery from the vapor nozzle, there being sufcient vspace between such delivery point from the vapor nozzle and the inlet to the'blu'nertube to provide for the with said gas prior to its entry to the burner tube.

The use of the improvement will be apparent from the above'description taken in connection with the drawings, -it being'/l'illn/",` de rstood that to the Asleetze/vI or anyothel;r

burner tube underlying the loopY formed raporizer with the slits thereof disposed to discharge within'said loop, and means for controlling the passage of fuel from the vapor nozzle to the burner tube.

In testimony whereof I atHX in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY oLAfr FOX. Witnesses: y

HARDAWAY,

J. H; BURLINGAME.

the heating element is ins ylg'tyljr, ed into the body of thesad iron through they l -opening in the sleeve member 4, thesection one of said channels, a, slittedmy signature 

